'For most people, shooting stars are rare events but under dark skies you can expect to see a few meteors on any clear night' ☄️ | gsc1 ✍️
August sees the return of the most reliable meteor shower of the year, the Perseids, with rates of shooting stars possibly increasing to dozens every hour, depending on how dark and clear your skies are, and what time of night you’re out. Steve Owens, astronomer at Glasgow Science Centre and author of Stargazing for Dummies, explains how best to plan a meteor-watching trip.
From towns and cities, under light polluted skies, you can’t see many at all. Those rare meteors which are bright enough to outshine our streetlights often go viral on social media, but by the time you read about them or see shaky videos of them, they’re gone. Tonight, Earth will pass through the densest part of a dust cloud left behind by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, causing the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. You can begin watching for Perseid meteors now, and the shower will last until late-August, but the peak of the shower occurs overnight tonight.
This year the Perseid meteor shower has an expected maximum rate of around 150 shooting stars per hour. But if the forecast looks good it’s really worth the effort to head outside somewhere dark and watch one of nature’s most spectacular events.has many great places for dark sky meteor-watching. You could head to Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park to see some of Scotland’s darkest skies, but really any effort you can make to get away from city lights will help.
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